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Cross-Selling Online Scams and Security Issues
An anonymous reader writes "The site 12 Angry Men recently published a discussion of a widely used but little-known online scam called 'cross-selling'. Essentially, after-sale shops cut deals with shady online retailers in an attempt to make a quick buck off of you after you've already bought something. 'What actually happens is that instead of linking to the site as a separate session, they link internally as another page in the same session. Why is this important? When you do a credit card transaction, any reputable company will attempt to protect your credit card data. They do this by establishing an SSL session to encrypt sensitive data on-line.' What makes everything even more interesting is that now the company has responded, with the usual white washing and meaningless statements."
...Anyone notice that the website that this article is on prevents you from navigating away via the browswer back button? I was always suspicious about sites that employed Javascript to prevent people from navigating away. An article about shifty behavior on a site that triest to manage your attemts to leave. Classy!
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It's not as clear cut as that. You see, in the case of severe trauma, there are two basic treatment paths to take: Keep the body warm, or keep the body cold. The colder the body is, the better the chance the victim comes out alive and intact. So, the body should always be kept cold, right?
Well, if the victim dies anyway, then it's time to harvest. Oh, but the body being kept cold has put the organs closer to death. This reduces the amount of time they can be out of the body before they become useless to a new body.
So, we need to keep the body warm. But if we do that, then the victim has a much greater chance of suffering severe, disabling injuries out of the accident. Which means it's more likely he dies.
Think about it. Would you prefer to live, or to die? Oh, and let's not get started on the medical personnel who have a very important job: If there is any chance the person could be an organ donor, pressure the (still in shock) family to allow organ donation.
As for me, I choose to live. I do not wish to be an organ donor, and have said so to my family.
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